![ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St.Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1821]. 4° (358 x 284mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 48 hand-coloured plates, mostly aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. (Some spotting, mostly in the first and last few leaves of text and the first plate, occasional offsetting from the plates.) Crimson morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt (light rubbing, joints slightly split).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05476_0023_000(ackermann_rudolph_the_history_of_the_colleges_of_winchester_eton_and_w041543).jpg?w=1)
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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St.Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1821]. 4° (358 x 284mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 48 hand-coloured plates, mostly aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. (Some spotting, mostly in the first and last few leaves of text and the first plate, occasional offsetting from the plates.) Crimson morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt (light rubbing, joints slightly split).
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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St.Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1821]. 4° (358 x 284mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 48 hand-coloured plates, mostly aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. (Some spotting, mostly in the first and last few leaves of text and the first plate, occasional offsetting from the plates.) Crimson morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt (light rubbing, joints slightly split).
A well-margined copy, in a handsome red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plate 6, 'Winchester College, from the Meadow', is dated January 1816; Plate 23, 'Westminster School Room', shows the masters wearing caps; Plate 26, 'Charter House from the Play Ground', with engraved title and scene of boys playing cricket. Abbey, Scenery, 438; Tooley 3.
A well-margined copy, in a handsome red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plate 6, 'Winchester College, from the Meadow', is dated January 1816; Plate 23, 'Westminster School Room', shows the masters wearing caps; Plate 26, 'Charter House from the Play Ground', with engraved title and scene of boys playing cricket. Abbey, Scenery, 438; Tooley 3.